Important: The DDR2 RAM speed must be set to 333 Mhz, not to 400 Mhz. The Altera / EBV workshop documents of 2013-06 stated to set the speed to 400 Mhz, which is not a stable setting for the current boards.

The Socrates root file system, at RocketBoards.org, contains a Python webserver as part of the demonstration.

Altera "BeMicro FPGA Evaluation Kit" - “Build an Embedded Processor System in an FPGA in Minutes”. The “old” kit of 2010 ( 512 KB RAM ), good to learn how to configure a FPGA to make it work as a CPU & FPGA programming.

The board is equipped with a temperature sensor ( National LM71CIMF SPI/Microwire 13-bit Plus Sign Temperature Sensor ). As of 2011-03, there is a software bug in the FPGA, so that the temperature sensor does not create reasonable values when read from official “C/C++” software examples ( the webserver ). Typical values in normal conditioned rooms of 20° C at Winter/Spring time, are 32°C..34°C.

With these free Altera development tools, if the installation file has about the same size, the service package contain a new full version. The update does not patch the old version, but is a fresh install and must be installed in a separate directory.

A full version of the realtime operating system µMicrium C/OS-II is shipped with the BeMicro SDK. “You can develop software for any of the Nios II development kits using the Micrium MicroC/OS-II RTOS. To generate software to run on other boards and/or ship in a product, you must obtain a license”.

A trial version of the run-time monitoring tool Micrium "µC/Probe" for Windows is shipped with the BeMicro SDK.